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An adventurer who spent 60 days living on Britain’s streets for a television experiment says he was shocked to discover that the homeless can earn "£40 an hour tax-free” and have more food than they can eat.

But for 60 Days on the Streets, a new Channel 4 documentary series, he lived among the homeless in Manchester, London and Glasgow.

He went into the series with “no preconceived ideas” but ended up discovering that begging is “more lucrative than I ever imagined”. He expected to lose weight but ended up putting on 5kg because well-meaning...